Collision ousts Oregon women’s 4×100 relay

DES MOINES, Iowa – A collision on the first exchange by Oregon senior Mandy White and UO freshman English Gardner eliminated the Ducks from contention in the women's 4×100 relay at Drake Stadium on Wednesday.

Apparently, White came up on Gardner too quickly, and might have hit her leg, as Gardner ended up on the track. Gardner was limping in the mixed zone and underwent a medical assessment after the event.

She is scheduled to run the 100 later tonight.

The Ducks were projected to finish seventh in the 4×100 relay by Track & Field News.

The other two legs were junior Lauryn Newson and Jamesha Youngblood.

Curtis Anderson covered UO track and field for The Register-Guard from 1990-96, and again since 2005. He covered the 2012 Olympic Games in London, in addition to the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in New Orleans (1992), Atlanta (1996) and Hayward Field (2008 and 2012). He is the winner of the Jesse Abramson Award, presented by the Track & Field Writers of America for excellence in coverage in 2008.